We invite exploration without perfection, creating an environment free of demands, pressure, or shame.
At Spiral Studio, we facilitate healing through movement, using music and dance to create cathartic and grounding experiences. We empower individuals through choice, equipping you with tools to honor your body and explore your needs—on your own terms and in your own time.
Purpose
We exist to help people experience movement as a pathway to joy, self-discovery, and deeper connection.
Mission
At Spiral Studio, we help people cultivate vitality, awareness, and joy through movement. Our classes, workshops, and events in dance, yoga, and restorative practices offer a compassionate, non-judgmental space to connect with the body, release stress, and experience deeper connection with self and community. Blending science with intuition and structure with freedom, we empower people to move in ways that feel natural, nourishing, and freeing.
What We Do
We offer dance, yoga, and restorative practices to empower people to connect with their bodies, release stress, and foster joy.
Core Values
Trust Yourself.
We believe each person holds deep inner wisdom. We encourage listening inward, honoring your needs, and moving in ways that feel right for you. Whether on the mat, the dance floor, or in daily life, you’re supported to choose your own path—one rooted in intuition, agency, and self-compassion.
Come as You Are.
We meet every person with empathy, respect, and care—creating a brave, welcoming space where all bodies, identities, and emotions are honored. Whether you're feeling strong or tender, energized or exhausted, you are invited to show up just as you are. Here, self-compassion isn’t a reward you earn—it’s the starting point. We center your needs, not performance, and support your healing through gentle, heart-led movement and community connection.
Be Real. Be Rooted.
We practice what we teach—embodying authenticity, transparency, and alignment in every aspect of what we offer. We speak truthfully, act with integrity, and remain rooted in our values, even when it’s hard. We reject performative wellness and false promises, instead creating space for honest, values-driven experiences. We invite our community to live and move in alignment with their own truths—with courage, care, and intention.
We believe each person holds deep inner wisdom. We encourage listening inward, honoring your needs, and moving in ways that feel right for you. Whether on the mat, the dance floor, or in daily life, you’re supported to choose your own path—one rooted in intuition, agency, and self-compassion.
Come as You Are.
We meet every person with empathy, respect, and care—creating a brave, welcoming space where all bodies, identities, and emotions are honored. Whether you're feeling strong or tender, energized or exhausted, you are invited to show up just as you are. Here, self-compassion isn’t a reward you earn—it’s the starting point. We center your needs, not performance, and support your healing through gentle, heart-led movement and community connection.
Be Real. Be Rooted.
We practice what we teach—embodying authenticity, transparency, and alignment in every aspect of what we offer. We speak truthfully, act with integrity, and remain rooted in our values, even when it’s hard. We reject performative wellness and false promises, instead creating space for honest, values-driven experiences. We invite our community to live and move in alignment with their own truths—with courage, care, and intention.
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The Story of Spiral Studio
by Sarah Hentges
For years, I lived between two worlds.
In academia, I was told to stay in my head. In fitness spaces, I was expected to perform. Both worlds offered something, but neither made space for the full truth of who I was. I was a professor who craved freedom of movement. A movement teacher who questioned the toxic culture of the wellness industry. And a human being seeking something more: something honest, liberating, and real.
I taught college courses about women and power. I choreographed dance fitness routines and taught in studios and community centers. But still, I felt boxed in by narrow expectations and harmful narratives—about bodies, success, and what it meant to be “well.”
Even as I helped others move, I felt the disconnect. I was doing all the “right” things, but none of it felt right for me.
Everything shifted when I found the language and tools that gave voice to what I’d felt all along.
Training in JourneyDance™ cracked something open in me. Completing a certificate in Embodied Social Justice gave me words—and deep resonance—for what I’d been instinctively trying to create. I finally saw how movement could be so much more than exercise. It could be ritual. Expression. Liberation. Healing. And I knew I wasn’t the only one who needed that.
I stopped waiting for someone else to create the space I needed—and I built it.
When the opportunity came to rent a studio, I said yes. I didn’t have a business plan. I had a purpose. I had a vision for a space where you could come as you are. Where trauma-informed care was the foundation, and joy was part of the practice. A space without mirrors or performance, where people could move, breathe, and feel—without pressure, without shame, and without needing to fix themselves first.
What started as a dream to make conscious movement more accessible became something much bigger. It became Spiral Studio—a living, breathing space for people to reconnect with their bodies, find their center, and rediscover joy.
We’ve welcomed burned-out caregivers and curious seekers. Educators, artists, nurses, students. People navigating anxiety, overwhelm, disconnection—and those simply craving deeper self-awareness.
And together, we’ve built a community that doesn’t just talk about values like compassion, authenticity, and self-trust—we live them.
Spiral Studio isn’t just my story—it’s a reflection of yours.
It’s a space for those who’ve spent years putting others first. Who’ve been told to shrink or hustle or keep it together.
Here, you get to soften. To move. To come home to yourself.
We offer movement experiences that invite healing, not fixing. Curiosity, not critique. Empowerment, not performance.
Because movement is a path to liberation. And joy isn’t a reward for healing—it’s part of the process.
This is your space.
To breathe deeper. To move freely. To choose your own path.
To trust yourself again.
Come as you are.
Be real. Be rooted.
Move—and be moved.
In academia, I was told to stay in my head. In fitness spaces, I was expected to perform. Both worlds offered something, but neither made space for the full truth of who I was. I was a professor who craved freedom of movement. A movement teacher who questioned the toxic culture of the wellness industry. And a human being seeking something more: something honest, liberating, and real.
I taught college courses about women and power. I choreographed dance fitness routines and taught in studios and community centers. But still, I felt boxed in by narrow expectations and harmful narratives—about bodies, success, and what it meant to be “well.”
Even as I helped others move, I felt the disconnect. I was doing all the “right” things, but none of it felt right for me.
Everything shifted when I found the language and tools that gave voice to what I’d felt all along.
Training in JourneyDance™ cracked something open in me. Completing a certificate in Embodied Social Justice gave me words—and deep resonance—for what I’d been instinctively trying to create. I finally saw how movement could be so much more than exercise. It could be ritual. Expression. Liberation. Healing. And I knew I wasn’t the only one who needed that.
I stopped waiting for someone else to create the space I needed—and I built it.
When the opportunity came to rent a studio, I said yes. I didn’t have a business plan. I had a purpose. I had a vision for a space where you could come as you are. Where trauma-informed care was the foundation, and joy was part of the practice. A space without mirrors or performance, where people could move, breathe, and feel—without pressure, without shame, and without needing to fix themselves first.
What started as a dream to make conscious movement more accessible became something much bigger. It became Spiral Studio—a living, breathing space for people to reconnect with their bodies, find their center, and rediscover joy.
We’ve welcomed burned-out caregivers and curious seekers. Educators, artists, nurses, students. People navigating anxiety, overwhelm, disconnection—and those simply craving deeper self-awareness.
And together, we’ve built a community that doesn’t just talk about values like compassion, authenticity, and self-trust—we live them.
Spiral Studio isn’t just my story—it’s a reflection of yours.
It’s a space for those who’ve spent years putting others first. Who’ve been told to shrink or hustle or keep it together.
Here, you get to soften. To move. To come home to yourself.
We offer movement experiences that invite healing, not fixing. Curiosity, not critique. Empowerment, not performance.
Because movement is a path to liberation. And joy isn’t a reward for healing—it’s part of the process.
This is your space.
To breathe deeper. To move freely. To choose your own path.
To trust yourself again.
Come as you are.
Be real. Be rooted.
Move—and be moved.
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